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holding a hearing on the
proposed Keystone XL pipeline,
which would bring tar sand oil
from Alberta, Canada, to the
Texas Gulf Coast. 3:30-8 p.m.
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Fraternity sued by national chapter for assets

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The former UT chapter of the Kappa Alpha fraternity is being sued by the
national Kappa Alpha organization.

The national Kappa Alpha fraternity organization filed a lawsuit
against its former UT chapter, claiming the group owes the national organization hundreds of thousands of
dollars in assets.
The lawsuit alleges the UT group
hired exotic dancers that performed
live sexual acts for recruitment purposes and hazed pledge members.
When the national organization suspended the UT chapter for the incident in June, the UT chapter disassociated and formed Texas Omicron,
according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit demands the return of

delinquent dues, real estate at 2515
Leon St., kitchen appliances, artwork
and other property the national chapter alleges belongs to the Kappa Alpha organization.
Attorney Robert Alden is an alumnus and board member of UT Texas Omicron. He said he believes the
lawsuit is just a way for Kappa Alpha
to embarrass Texas Omicron because
it is the only chapter to ever leave the
national organization.
“The lawsuit is full of inflammatory language intended to generate bad
publicity for the chapter,” Alden said.
“They are completely irrelevant for
the merits of the legal claims they’ve
made and are inappropriate to even
be in a pleading.”
But Kappa Alpha said in a Tues-

we can work on ways to improve
that communication system.”
An operating error with the
siren system was one of the
problems that occurred on the
day of the shooting, according
to a UTPD report of the event.
The siren system is activated by
a case-sensitive activation code,

One year ago today, mathematics sophomore Colton Tooley arrived on campus with an
AK-47. After firing multiple
shots, he died by a self-inflicted
gunshot on the sixth floor of the
Perry-Castañeda Library.
Associate English professor
Phillip Barrish had just dropped
some books into the return slot
in front of the PCL that morning when he heard gunfire. After seeing people running as fast
as they could down 21st Street
and ducking into the McCombs
School of Business across the
street, he decided to move, he
said.
“What was going on hadn’t
yet clicked for me, but I decided
to step back into the lobby just
in case,” he said. “Ironically, this
proved not to have been the wisest decision I could have made.”
A man in a black ski mask
holding a gun, later identified
as Tooley, entered the library
about three seconds after Barrish stepped into the entryway,
he said. Tooley then moved past
Barrish torward the elevators,
the professor said.
“As he passed by, I looked at
the front of his mask, still trying
to figure out exactly what was
going on, and he turned briefly to look at me,” Barrish said.
“Even then, it took me a second to grasp that what I was seeing — a man with an automatic

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The Association of Latinos in
Communication announces its
first general meeting. Meet the
new officers, learn more about
ALIC and discuss plans for the
semester. 7-8 p.m. in SSB 4.212

Poetry on the
Plaza

Poetry on the Plaza features
Shakespearean actor Dale
Rapley in a staged reading with
commentary from W.H. Auden’s
“The Sea and the Mirror.” Noon1 p.m. in the Harry Ransom
Center.

Today in history
Erika Rich | Daily Texan file photo

The Boston Red Sox’s Ted
William becomes last player to
hit .400.

Campus watch
Graffiti

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A UT staff member discovered
the unpublished work of an
aspiring Picasso inside a 2nd
floor men’s restroom stall. The
staff member discovered the
image of a partially drawn leg
and foot. The medium of choice
was black permanent marker.
Estimated repair: $50.00.
Discovered on: 9-26-11, at 2:29
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the other places I
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only liked other places because they reminded me of Austin.”
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day press release that its former Texas chapter violated the fraternity’s law
when it decided to form a “rogue, independent chapter” while holding
$200,000 of possessions the national
organization says belong to it.
“Kappa Alpha law expressly forbids
this action,” the organization’s press
release said. “Regrettably, the national organization will have little choice
but to seek the expulsion of each individual, undergraduate or alumnus involved in this effort.”
Alden said the national Kappa Alpha organization filed the suit after the alumni board and active UT
chapter decided to leave the Kappa Alpha organization when the na-

Police officers walk past the east side of the Perry-Castañeda Library while responding to the campus shooting on Sept. 28, 2010. In response to
the incident, UT officials have implemented changes regarding police response to emergencies on campus.

The impact of Colton Tooley
firing shots on 21st Street and
his suicide in the Perry Casteñeda Library on Sept. 28, 2010,
lasted longer than the days following the incident.
A year later, the UT community continues to perfect its emer-

gency response measures, while
also grappling with rifts in the
student body over gun control
issues and creating a network
of support for emotionally distressed students and.
Gerald Robert Harkins, associate vice president for Campus Safety and Security, said
that since the shooting, the UT
Police Department has worked

within its own department and
with other local law enforcement agencies to smooth over
some minor security obstacles
that popped up during the response to the shooting.
“We had put together a system of communication that had
not been tested under stress,”
Harkins s aid. “Now t hat we
have seen that system in action,

The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation awarded a $10,000 scholarship
to computer science and mathematics
major Ben Braun Monday, said computer science professor Calvin Lin,
who helped nominate Braun.
Every year, 26 scholarships worth
$10,000 each are awarded to students
at the educational institutions that are
partnered with ASF, said Beth Higdon, a spokeswoman for ASF. She said
that the foundation, originally known
as the Mercury Seven Foundation, is a
way to help keep America at the forefront of science and technology.

Higdon said that the scholarship,
awarded to juniors and seniors, is given to only one student from each institution. She said university faculty
nominate two students from the natural science and engineering fields for
the award and the ASF scholarship
committee chooses one recipient.
“To be considered for the award,

the student must be performing at the
top of their class, be a well-rounded
student and be actively involved in lab
and research work in their field,” Higdon said.
Braun began researching ways
to build Nano scale machines with

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In order to obtain student input for the task force working to
increase the four-year graduation
rate, the Liberal Arts Council and
Senate of College Councils hosted an open forum at the University Teaching Center on Tuesday
evening.
Using discussions and various polls of those who attended, the videotaped forum invited students to offer their opinions on what should be done to
raise the four-year graduation
rate, currently at 52 percent, to
associate dean Marc Musick and
dean Randy Diehl, the task force
chair.
“Student support is imperative
for increasing four-year gradua-

tion rates,” Diehl said. “Any successful initiative begins with listening, and that’s what this forum is about. I hope students
will share their ideas about what
motivates them to achieve a fouryear degree and the barriers that
may be standing in their way.”
Several topics were discussed
at the event, particularly how to
balance the ‘cultivation of the
mind’ desired by President William Powers Jr. in reaching the
four-year goal. Some were surprised, then, when many of the
activities often associated with
more time spent in college correlated with earlier graduation,
such as the fact that students who
studied abroad were statistically

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about was about being innovative,
and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really interested in getting
a follow up of Musickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s research,â&#x20AC;?
said international relations sophomore Kolby Lee. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What stood out
seven times more likely to gradu- to me was the correlation between
study abroad and less time spent
ate in four years, Diehl said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of what they were talking in college.â&#x20AC;?

The task force, which has been
meeting twice a week since the
summer, is composed of 10 faculty members from various colleges and five student representatives.
Up until this point, the task force
has been meeting with expert witnesses and student leaders to ob-

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ternity was suspended because of
hazing, and new hazing allegations
arose in 2011, a statement released
Tuesday said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We take allegations like this extremely seriously and will not tolerate hazing of any sort in our student
organizations,â&#x20AC;? Reagins-Lilly said in
a statement issued by her office. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We
began investigating immediately. The
lawsuit lays out additional allegations
that we will also look into.â&#x20AC;?
A l d e n s ai d a lu m n i c on ducted their own investigation
into allegations of hazing and
sexual misconduct.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The alumni advisers for the chap-

ter investigated these allegations, and
we have not found any evidence of
hazing,â&#x20AC;? Alden said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As for the sex
show, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lady with her sidekick
who comes around to all the fraternities and offers her services. Omicron wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the only one. She does
this nationally.â&#x20AC;?
Alden said the UT chapter enacted its own disciplinary measures that
it believed were more appropriate
than national Kappa Alphaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more
severe terms.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not acceptable behavior,â&#x20AC;? Alden said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve taken corrective action, and that kind of thing will never happen again.â&#x20AC;?

he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to hurt anybody
except himself.â&#x20AC;?
Faculty and staff on campus keep
a stronger eye out now for students
who may be going to a dangerous
place psychologically, and awareness
has increased to a certain extent,
Barrish said. He said the members of
the campus community that were already opposed to concealed carry on
campus have also come to feel more
strongly about the issue.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I remember feeling, right after he
had walked through the lobby, that
we were lucky nobody in the lobby
had pulled out a concealed weapon,â&#x20AC;?
he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even at the time, that struck
me as the one thing that could have
provoked him to start firing.â&#x20AC;?
Doug Barnett, chief of staff of UT
libraries, was in his office on the third
floor of the PCL when he learned of
the shooting. Despite the hectic nature of the situation, the safety procedures went smoothly, he said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;That day reinforced what I think
we all took for granted â&#x20AC;&#x201D; how every

member of the University community is a part of one big community,â&#x20AC;? he
said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Part of what we want to make
sure weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all doing is looking out for
each other and being watchful.â&#x20AC;?
Journalism sophomore Alyssa
Sanchez was in an 8 a.m. journalism
lecture in the University Teaching
Center when two students ran in to
announce that they had heard gunshots outside of the PCL. The building was on lockdown soon after, and
students kept up by watching the local news and through utilizing social
media and text messaging, she said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was really nerve-wracking being so close but not knowing what
was going on most of the time,â&#x20AC;? she
said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was scared the shooter might
come to our building since it was so
close by.â&#x20AC;?
A year later, campus feels safe
again, Sanchez said. Although there
was fear and confusion in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, the
University handled the situation in a
way that made campus feel safe again,
she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even though the first few
days after the shooting, I was scared,
today I feel safe walking around
campus,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The situation was
handled pretty well, and that secured
a lot of the fears students felt this
past year.â&#x20AC;?

tional office made allegations of fraternity misconduct in May. The national Kappa Alpha organization
punished the chapter by threatening
to seize its fraternity house.
Dean of Students Soncia ReaginsLilly said the University will conduct
its own investigation into the allegations of the lawsuit. The University
had already been working with Kappa Alpha national and local representatives since 2004, when the fra-

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weapon in the library â&#x20AC;&#x201D; was real.â&#x20AC;?
Although the situation was surreal, there was not a sense of imminent
threat for those in the lobby of the
PCL, Barrish said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afraid for myself or for
others in the lobby,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Somehow, even though he had a gun,
he hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t struck me as aggressive.
Part of me was worried, though,
that he might be looking for somebody in particular on an upper
floor. As it turned out, of course,

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tain a better understanding of the
problem of graduation, Diehl said.
Ultimately, the task force hopes
to develop a plan that will work
for Powersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; goal to have an 80 percent four-year graduation rate in
five years, Diehl said. The deadline
for their proposal is currently set

for December.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The conclusions are that students that are integrated in their
university socially and academically will do better,â&#x20AC;? Musick said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;What we want to do is change
peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s minds about how they
view the campus.â&#x20AC;?

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which was unknown to staff
and caused a delay. Staff has
since been trained to operate the case-sensitive system, according to Hawkins.
UTPD has also been training
with the Austin Police Department to raise coordination of the two forces should
another active shooter situation arise.
Harkins said overall, UT
did a great job of responding
to Tooleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actions, but the
University will continue to
look for ways to train for active shooter situations as well
as to prevent them.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;C olton To ole y came to
campus with 30 rounds of
ammunition,â&#x20AC;? Harkins said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Had he decided to kill people, we could have had 30
people dead on the ground
before UTPD got there. In
my opinion, the chances of
stopping a shooting like that
are pretty slim. We can only
look to ways to optimize our
response system and work
w it h U T C ou ns e l i ng an d
Me nt a l He a lt h C e nt e r t o
raise awareness.â&#x20AC;?
In the past year, the UT
C ounseling and Mental
Health Center has increased
its efforts to educate faculty,
staff and students about resources available for individuals experiencing stressed,
depressed, anxious, homicidal, suicidal or mentally troubling thoughts.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have trained hundreds
more in the UT community with Be That One suicide
workshops,â&#x20AC;? said associate director for CMHC Jane Bost.

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DNA during the spring semester of
his freshman year at the University.
The research tries to provide a computer-assisted design tool for Nano
scale devices made from polymer
DNA, he said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;As a building material, [DNA] is
cheap. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s robust and reliable,â&#x20AC;? Braun
said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve discovered we can do
quite interesting things with DNA.â&#x20AC;?
Braun said he harbors a deep passion for science and learning new
things. He said his love for science
was instilled in him as a child by
his parents, both of whom are actively involved with research at the
University of Texas Medical Branch
in Galveston.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;My father played puzzle games
with me since I was young. We
played chess a lot and other games
that required quite of bit of thinking,â&#x20AC;?
Braun said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Solving problems always
seemed fun to me and science seems
like a profession that always lets you
solve problems and [gives you] fun
puzzles to solve every day and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re

â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are out there on campus
doing a lot of training, raising a lot of awareness.â&#x20AC;?
Tooleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actions became
part of a heated debate in
the 2011 Texas Legislative
session when a bill to allow
concealed carry of hand guns
on Texas college campuses
was introduced by three state
senators. The concealed carry measure did not pass this
session.
S o ci a l work s ophomore
Kelley Mathis said she has
faith in the Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capability to respond in a future incident.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I t h i n k U T re s p on d e d
well,â&#x20AC;? Mathis said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The only
thing I feel UT could have
done better was getting us
the news. The only source to
me was TV news, and it was
incredibly inaccurate. Rumors of a second shooter and
multiple dead bodies created
an environment of fear that
was unnecessary.â&#x20AC;?

Scan for a look back at all
The Daily Texanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coverage
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bit.ly/DTlookback
never bored.â&#x20AC;?
Braun said he knew right away
he wanted to be involved with research when he got to the University. He began by working with natural sciences professor Andrew Ellington doing hands-on things but soon
switched to computational work,
where he contributed much more,
Ellington said.
Robert Crippen, former astronaut,
UT alumnus and ASF board member presented Braun with the $10,000
scholarship, Lin said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;[Braun] has had a pretty spectacular academic record in terms of his
grades and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in the Turing Scholars Program and Deanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Scholars,â&#x20AC;?
Lin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But what really stood out
is the impact heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already had in such
a short time.â&#x20AC;?
Crippen stressed the fact that the
award exists to encourage more involvement in research in the sciences, specifically to increase the number of engineers and scientists that
this country produces, Braun said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think that such an award, being really large, shows that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a
strong support for undergraduate research in the United States and in the
community,â&#x20AC;? Braun said.

Michael
Jackson fan
Bristre Clayton
of Las Vegas
stands outside
court during the trial
of Conrad
Murray, Michael
Jackson’s
doctor who
has been
charged with
involuntary
manslaughter
in the pop
icon’s death, on
Tuesday.

First, prosecutors showed a photo of Michael Jackson’s pale and lifeless body lying on a gurney. Then,
they played a recording of his voice,
just weeks before his death.
Slow and slurred, his words
echoed Tuesday through a Los Angeles courtroom at the start of the
trial of the doctor accused of killing him. As a worldwide audience
watched on TV and Jackson’s family looked on from inside the courtroom, a drugged Jackson said:
“We have to be phenomenal.
When people leave this show, when
people leave my show, I want them

to say, ‘I’ve never seen nothing like
this in my life. Go. Go. I’ve never
seen nothing like this. Go. It’s amazing. He’s the greatest entertainer in
the world.’”
Prosecutors played the audio for
the first time during opening statements as they portrayed Dr. Conrad Murray, 58, as an incompetent physician who used a dangerous anesthetic without adequate
safeguards and whose neglect left
the superstar abandoned as he
lay dying.
The theme was Jackson’s quest
for sleep and propofol, the potion
he called his “milk.” Jurors were
told that it was a powerful anesthetic, not a sleep aid, and Murray misused it.

Defense attorneys countered
that Jackson caused his own death
by taking a drug dose, including propofol, after Murray left
the room.
Nothing the cardiologist could
have done would have saved
the King of Pop, defense attorney Ed Chernoff told jurors, because Jackson was desperate to regain his fame and needed rest
to prepare for a series of crucial
comeback concerts.
A number of Jackson’s family
members were in the courthouse,
including his father Joseph, mother Katherine, sisters LaToya and Janet, and brothers Jermaine, Randy
and Tito.
The family’s most emotion-

al moment came when the prosecutor played a video excerpt
from Jackson’s “This Is It” rehearsal in which he sang “Earth Song,”
a plea for better treatment of
the environment.
As Jackson sang the words, “I
used to dream. I used to glance beyond the stars,” his mother, Katherine, dabbed at her eyes with
a tissue.
Prosecutor David Walgren noted
it was Jackson’s last performance.
Murray, who arrived at court
holding hands with his mother, has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter. If convicted, he could face up to four
years in prison and the loss of his
medical license.

Rodrigo Telon Yucute focuses
on the sound of the voices, raises a
camera and snaps off a shot, capturing an image of a couple laughing as
they sit on a yellow park bench.
He shows it to the subjects but
cannot see it himself. The photographer-in-training has been blind for
nearly 30 years.
“When I was young, I met a lot
of people, and it always caught my
attention how they would take photographs to keep as mementos,” Telon said. “I like to take photographs
to capture a moment that I can later
share with my family and friends so
they can see what my life is like.”
Telon was a 22-year-old guerrilla
fighter in his home country of Guatemala when a land mine exploded,
ripping apart his left forearm and
destroying his eyesight.
After years of rehabilitation, he
learned Braille and how to use a
cane to get around. Now 51, Telon is
fulfilling his longtime wish of taking
photographs.
He is one of 30 visually impaired
or blind people learning photography with the help of the Mexico
City foundation Ojos Que Sienten,
or Eyes That Feel.
Founded five years ago by professional Mexican photographer Gina
Badenoch, the foundation teaches
the blind to express in photographs
how they perceive the world. Her
students use hearing, touch, smell
and taste to choose their subjects
and create their images.
“It helps them feel part of society
again. It helps them be seen and be
heard again,” she said.
For many of the new photographers, the most rewarding part is
having their sighted friends describe
the images.
“Being able to share something I

made and hear people who are seeing your photograph describe what
you created in your mind is something I enjoy tremendously,” said
Jose Manuel Pacheco Crispin, a
33-year-old university student who
began losing his sight at 16 because
of a retinal degenerative disease.
“It has helped me to break barriers and to keep having crazy ideas,”
said Pacheco, who recently climbed
to the top of Iztaccihuatl, a 17,159foot volcano near Mexico City.
Photography doesn’t come easy.
Beginners often leave out the heads
or legs of their subject, but they
learn to improve their images. The
sun’s warmth helps them know
where to place themselves to photograph their subject. They may touch
a flower to sense its shape or listen
for the wind blowing through leaves
to locate a tree.
“My hearing, my smell, all my
senses are alert when I’m taking
a photograph,” said Jose Antonio
Dominguez.
Dominguez, 49, first lost sight in
his right eye when he was a teenager
because of glaucoma.
Each blind photographer has a
project to work on for two months.
Dominguez wants to photograph
people who help him as he navigates
the chaotic streets of Mexico City.
Telon, who lost his parents and
two brothers during the civil war
in Guatemala, will focus part of his
project on an 8-year-old girl who
lost her arm and who refuses to
wear her artificial limb.
“I want to tell her my story and
how I got accustomed to using my
artificial arm,” Telon said.
He may also tell her about a
daughter he last saw 29 years ago,
when she was 6 weeks old.
“When I left to join the guerrilla, she was starting to smile,” Telon
said. “That’s a photograph I keep in
my mind.”

the profit and America gets the pollution.
How is that in our national interest?
This project would put our already limited
freshwater resources at risk to contamination
and further degrade the air quality of Texas
port cities. It would feed our costly addiction
to oil, and it would wed our future to the destructive production of tar sands crude. And
most eerily, investing in this project alone
will undo any progress that’s been made to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the past
and will render all future progress doubtful.
The decision on whether to build this
pipeline rests almost entirely with President
Barack Obama. Public determination meetings are being held across the country on
this matter, and the U.S. State Department is
coming to UT’s campus today to ask people
what they think about the pipeline. The Sierra Student Coalition will meet at 6 p.m. in
front of Littlefield Fountain for its March for
Clean Energy before attending the hearing,
which will be held from 3:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
at the Lady Bird Johnson Auditorium of the
LBJ Library. The only way that we can stop
this horrible mistake in the making is to attend and let Obama know that this is not the
change we had hoped for.

The U.S. Department of Justice asked Texas on Friday to
provide more information on the state’s new voter ID law.
The law, which passed in the Legislature this year and goes
into effect Jan. 1, requires prospective Texas voters to bring
valid photo ID to receive a ballot. Though flawed, this law
codifies legitimate safeguards against voting fraud and the
Justice Department should approve it quickly.
Under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Texas is required to
receive clearance from the Justice Department before the state
can implement any election-related changes. This provision,
which applies to a handful of mostly southern states with a history of voting discrimination, came into effect when the voter ID law passed. The department is now examining whether
the ID law would negatively affect voter participation among
minority groups.
Specifically, the Justice Department asked Texas to provide more information about the 605,576 registered voters
who do not currently have a valid ID. Some Democrats and
civil rights organizations charged that the new law unfairly
targets Hispanic voters lacking such identification. The department wants to know how many of these registered voters have Spanish surnames and which counties they live in
as part of its assessment.
But Hispanic voters themselves benefit from the voter ID
law. Currently, anyone who can provide a copy of even a current utility bill or a bank statement with their name and a
Texas address on it can vote. The new law’s list of valid photo
ID would all require legal U.S. residency to be granted.
And since the U.S. government routinely deports immigrants who show up to vote in a national or statewide election, the new law will hopefully serve as a deterrent against
non-citizens voting. A Hispanic immigrant may be misled
into voting while not yet a citizen, only to painfully blow
their shot at the American dream later on as they thought
they were fulfilling a civic duty.
Naturalized and U.S.-born Hispanics should have no
problems in voting. The former can still present their citizenship certificate as valid ID, whereas the latter presumably
should have no more difficulty acquiring a state ID on their
18th birthday than a non-Hispanic Texan.
UT students eligible to vote in Texas elections should also
have no problem complying with the law’s new rules. A Texas resident of any age can go to a DPS office and purchase a
personal ID card for $16. UT students originally from out of
state can also easily acquire a Texas drivers’ license or state
ID if they bring a copy to DPS of the same ID from their former state of residence. And students will now be able to get a
free election identification certificate if they prefer.
Detractors of the new law insist the new law strikes a blow
at student voters by not accepting student IDs as valid identification. Congressman John Lewis of Georgia wrote in an
Aug. 26 New York Times op-ed: “Texas also rejects student
IDs but allows voting by those who have a license to carry
a concealed handgun. These schemes are clearly crafted to
affect not just how we vote, but who votes.”
Moses may have wandered the desert, but I spent my
first semester this May trudging throughout an unfamiliar
campus to get a UT student ID card. No UT student can
reasonably expect to have fun waiting at a DPS office to get a
state ID, but it beats finding the FAC building in 100-degree
weather. And when I had to shell out $10 for my UT card,
nobody complained I was paying a ‘poll tax’ for a card that
should somehow ensure my state voting rights. By not accepting student IDs, Texas has eliminated a major potential
avenue for voting fraud.
The theory that this new law will malign Texas seniors is
as specious as the argument it could harm minorities and
college students. True, the elderly are less likely to have unexpired drivers’ licenses than other voting-age groups. Yet,
impaired mobility has never stopped this demographic’s status as America’s most reliable voting bloc.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, a whopping 74.5
percent of Texans aged 65 to 74 who were registered voters
for the November 2008 elections actually voted in that election. Less than half that percentage, or 36.6 percent, of 18- to
24-year-old registered Texan voters did the same.
Seniors, with already formidable political clout, are loath
to be disenfranchised so easily. I anticipate many of them
will organize transportation services to pick up ID cards
from DPS offices before the March primaries. At any rate,
the new law essentially waives such requirements for those
70 and older by issuing such Texans an election identification certificate that does not expire.
Democratic and civil rights organizations’ fears over this
new law are overblown. And when polling organizations
such as Rasmussen Reports find that around 75 percent of
Americans support photo ID laws, liberals would be wise to
support the new Texas law.

Morgan is president of UT’s Sierra Student Coalition.

Quazi is a nursing graduate student.

Clean up the catalog

At last weekend’s Texas Tribune Festival, UT President William
Powers Jr. faced a series of questions about the current debate surrounding the efficiency of the University. The problem, as Powers
sees it, is “a federalism one — who decides what and at what level.”
In short, the University should not be micromanaged.
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board recently suggested that it would cut any degree program at public colleges and
universities that fails to graduate at least 25 students over five years.
At UT, the Greek and Latin majors have been given as examples of
at-risk, low-producing programs.
On its face, the board’s rule seems to fit the type of micromanagement that Powers derided. And it hardly needs saying that the
value of a major cannot be accurately measured by the number of
students who graduate with it.
Powers said cutting the Greek program would seriously injure students studying other topics. Students majoring in religious studies,
classics and ancient history routinely take Greek language courses.
Their ability to study the ancient world would be severely limited
were UT to lack the expert Greek language faculty it has now.
The increased sorting of students into smaller and smaller bins
creates this apparent inefficiency despite the problem being only
one of perception. It is not hard to see how this process results in
low enrollment for given majors. If programs are defined narrowly,
of course only a small number of students will fit into them.
The University’s enrollment numbers for the classics department

in fall 2010 illustrate the point. Instead of 94 students studying the
classics, broadly defined, we have 26 students studying ancient history and civilization, 31 studying classical architecture, 27 studying classics and 10 studying Latin. Zero students were majoring in
Greek during this semester and the fall semester preceding it.
But all of these programs require students to take at least some
Greek or Latin. Outside observers are not likely to delve into the
course catalog to determine the true extent to which a Greek major differs from a classics major — very little — and instead cry
waste. Whether or not such waste is real rather than superficial is
no doubt highly situational.
But small departments are proliferating at an alarming rate. Even
many of the so-called interdisciplinary programs are themselves
tiny silos by another name. And we do not need any more silos; we
need more warehouses.
In the case of the Greek major, the problem is illusory. Enough
students take the classes to make teaching them worthwhile. But
that can be hard to convey to outside observers.
The problem is that the University’s organizational structure
allows and, in some cases, seems to encourage these situations to
develop. UT can avoid harmful micromanagement by, as Powers
recently put it, “cleaning up the catalog” and correcting incorrect
perceptions of this type that can make great headlines but are not
actual problems.
— Matt Daley for the editorial board.

Large numbers of protesters were recently
arrested in Washington, D.C., in opposition
to the Keystone XL pipeline, earning them
the record for the largest act of non-violent
civil disobedience since the Vietnam War.
The more than 1,700-mile pipeline would
cut through the Ogallala aquifer, the nation’s
largest, and through Texas’ Corrizo-Willcox
aquifer among other waterways between
Canada and the Texas Gulf Coast. As any
engineer could tell you, no pipe is 100-percent leak-proof. The existing pipeline has
had 13 leaks since June 2010, and the “extralarge” pipeline extension poses extreme risks
to our freshwater resources and croplands.
Additionally, tar sands — the crude product
being transported — involves tearing down
many acres of pristine forestland so it can
be tediously strip-mined, leaving a wrecked
ecosystem and vast amounts of toxic waste
that goes into tailings lakes that can be seen
from space.
The tar sands refinery has also been
shown to add three to four times as many
greenhouse gas pollutants to the atmosphere
than the conventional oil refinery — a major
worry for climatologists concerned about

the ongoing climate crises that we face.
James Hansen, a long-time leading climate
scientist and the current director of NASA’s
Goddard Institute, has said the building of
this pipeline would make catastrophic climate change inevitable.
The American Petroleum Institute has
called the pipeline the “biggest shovel-ready
project” in the country, and Exxon has spent
millions telling the American people that
Canadian tar sands translates to energy security. While job creation sounds good, the
institute’s argument has been seriously overblown. The pipeline is a $7 billion project
— big, but hardly the biggest. It will generate 5,000 to 8,000 jobs in an economy that
needs 400,000 jobs every month to reduce
unemployment.
Although TransCanada claims the oil is
for American consumers and that it will decrease our reliance on oil from the Middle
East, there is good reason to believe that the
pipeline is instead meant to get Canadian tar
sands oil to China and other rapidly growing
countries. For example, Chinese companies
have invested $15 billion into Canadian tar
sands reserves in the last 18 months, and the
energy minister of Alberta has even admitted
that getting the tar sands flowing to China is
a top priority. China gets the oil, Canada gets

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If we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t speak what we think,
there is no way to affect change and we
effectively shut d own the avenue for
progress, said Tara Smith, BB&T Corp.
chair holder.
On Tuesday, the BB&T chair for
the Study of Objectivism hosted a
dialogue on the topic of inflammatory speech in the Graduate School
of Business Building. At the event,
they discussed diverse issues relating to the topic of free speech, including blasphemous, offensive and
hateful speech.
Smith met with Nadine Strossen,
former president of the American
Civil Liberties Union, Alexander Tsesis, law professor at Loyola University
and John Burnett, correspondent for
National Public Radio.
Tsesis led the discussion by mentioning court cases that support the
idea that hate speech is not protected by the constitution and that regulation is a viable option.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Copyright violations, distributions of child pornography, obscenity and threats against the president
are all content-based limitations on
speech that are already in place,â&#x20AC;?
Tsesis said.
He said instances of harmful hate
speech have assisted to prolong and
intensify racism in the American
South and abroad in places such as
Nazi Germany.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The truth does not always win
out in the market place of ideas and
hate speech can be very powerful,â&#x20AC;?
Tsesis said.
Strossen said that she held an opposite position on the topic of inflammatory speech.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;[In allowing censorship,] we give
government officials unfettered pow-

Tamir Kalifa| Daily Texan Staff

Alexander Tsesis, a law professor at Loyola University, talks Tuesday at â&#x20AC;&#x153;Free Speech Dialogues,â&#x20AC;? a panel about inflammatory speech.

ers. Every idea can be seen as an incitement, and the decisions [of government officials] will be arbitrary
at best and discriminatory at worst,â&#x20AC;?
she said.
Strossen said that she recognizes the claim that hate speech can be
damaging, but she does not believe
censorship is the answer.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The government must remain
neutral to the viewpoint of the
speech,â&#x20AC;? Strossen said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The solution

is not to eliminate this speech but to
answer it.â&#x20AC;?
Burnett spoke about his experiences with inflammatory speech and the
Ku Klux Klan as a reporter.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have deep misgivings about being the medium through which these
Ku Klux Klan protests were given attention,â&#x20AC;? Burnett said.
However, he said that in the
end, he respects their right to
free speech.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are all grown-ups, and we
have the ability to handle these kinds
of issues,â&#x20AC;? Burnett said.
Smith said she tried to involve
speakers from numerous different viewpoints in order to make
the event a dialogue rather than
a debate.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The term â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;debateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; seems to imply that there are only two positions and that there can be a winner or a loser,â&#x20AC;? Smith said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In fact,

Kiersten Holms
Daily Texan Staff

the United States, beginning with
Reconstruction after the Civil War
and American involvement in the
Philippines, Germany, Vietnam,
Afghanistan and Iraq.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;[The book] is structured based
on specific historical cases, and it
follows a chronological organization. One of the points I make is
that each experience builds on the
last,â&#x20AC;? Suri said.
Suri said that a great amount
of research was involved in
the development of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Libertyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

Surest Guardian.â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The research involved a lot of
reading about different conflicts
and experiences and then doing a
lot of archival work,â&#x20AC;? Suri said.
Suri also spoke about the impact
he hopes the book will have.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really want young people to
take seriously the fact that they can
change the world and that they need
to change the world,â&#x20AC;? he said.
He mentioned that his work as a
professor was influential to his research and writing and that the

book was greatly impacted by his
experiences with students.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Part of my book is about how
Americans have changed the world
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not always for the better,â&#x20AC;? Suri
said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Especially now, young people
need to continue doing that.â&#x20AC;?
William Inboden, assistant professor in the LBJ School of Public
Affairs, said that he believes Suriâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
book will be instrumental in filling
a gap in public policy.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;[In public policy issues,] policymakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; first question is often â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;what

SG concerned with oil pipeline project impact
representatives on the committee did not feel comfortable voting in opposition to the
pipeline,â&#x20AC;? Desai said.
The Legislative Affairs Committee killed Townsendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s original bill
in session and drafted a new bill
calling for student involvement
on the issue and for the State Department to provide a new environmental impact statement that
would provide more information
on risks of the Keystone project on
Texas lands and communities during drought conditions.
The bill passed with an amendment that would only ask the State
Department to analyze the environmental impacts instead of issuing a new resolution.
School of Law representative
Austin Carlson said the original
resolution was in the greater political arena instead of the SG arena.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am all for having student
involvement, but you walk a
very fine line when you touch
an underlying political issue,â&#x20AC;?
Carlson said.

ys

can history tell us about this subject?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; All too often, there are not
enough resources.â&#x20AC;? Inboden said.
Frank Gavin, associate professor
in the Department of History and
the LBJ School of Public Affairs,
said that Suriâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presence at UT will
help to focus on valuable issues at
the University.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Suriâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work will be influential in
the way that it concentrates on what
has worked in the past in order to
connect history to contemporary
policy issues,â&#x20AC;? Gavin said.

President William Powers Jr.,
director of admissions Kedra
Ishop and other members of the
Office of Admissions will be traveling to El Paso today to celebrate
the grand opening of the El Paso
Admissions Center.
Like other UT admissions offices across the state, the El Paso office will serve as a place for students to learn about the University of Texas application process,
including housing and scholarship opportunities. The office will
work to expedite the process of
finding prospective students interested in attending UT, said Augustine Garza, deputy director of
the Office of Admissions.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our goal is to inform students
about UT and encourage them to
consider the University. We want
to get the message out,â&#x20AC;? said Garza. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When we are talking to audiences, we have kids who have never heard of our system, and all of
a sudden, they get interested and
they become prospects.â&#x20AC;?
Beginning with the Houston
branch that opened in 1995, these
admissions offices have been built
with the intention of representing all areas of Texas. An admissions office in Laredo is currently being planned, although it is
expected to be the last one built,
said Garza.
The El Paso center, which has
now been open for three weeks,
has a three-member full-time staff
that lives and works in El Paso,
said Michael Talamantes, director
of the El Paso Admissions Center.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The El Paso Admissions Center is a physical testament to the
University of Texas at Austinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
commitment to provide outreach
to all prospective students across
Texas,â&#x20AC;? said Talamantes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will
visit the greater El Paso area high
schools and participate in college
fairs and other school [and] community events to inform students
about opportunities available at
the University.â&#x20AC;?
The opening of an admissions
office in El Paso was â&#x20AC;&#x153;very exciting,â&#x20AC;? said theatre and dance sophomore Cynthia Jimenez, a native
of El Paso.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very awesome because a lot of people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t realize how easy it is to apply to get
into UT because people in El Paso
donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what resources are
out there for them. Hopefully, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll
bring more people out from El
Paso, especially in the Hispanic
community.â&#x20AC;?
The center will not, however, be a workshop where students
will learn testing strategy or how
to get in to UT. The center would
still prove very useful for information, said computer sciences
senior Stephen Moore.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I applied online, and that was
it,â&#x20AC;? said Moore. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The center could
be extremely useful to find out
what you needed to know â&#x20AC;&#x201D; for
a single person. When I applied, I
knew almost nothing about UT.â&#x20AC;?

of
T
as
ex

degradation of air quality and the
effect on natural aquifers, which
could, in turn, affect the families
and homes of UT students.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We hope that this legislation,
if passed by SG, will serve to illustrate the level of concern present
in the student body about this issue,â&#x20AC;? Townsend said.
Townsend said his committee
wrote the legislation in preparation for the State Department public hearing about the pipeline to be
held Wednesday.
Questions arose last week about
whether the issue of the Keystone
pipeline could be considered student life or whether it was solely a
political issue. Yaman Desai, chair
of the Legislative Affairs Committee, said representatives mainly had
concern with the proposed legislation because they felt not enough
was known about the pipeline and
about the environmental and economical issues it would cause.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;[Because] we found such contradictory and inconclusive research on the pipeline, many

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Student Government passed a
resolution supporting student involvement in the proposed Keystone Oil Pipeline Project on
Tuesday night. The resolution
did not state SGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opposition to
the pipeline but rather called for
more environmental and ecological information from the
State Department.
Andrew Townsend, assistant
director for the Campus Environmental Center, presented legislation opposing the oil pipeline to SG last week. The Keystone Oil Pipeline, a project by
energy company TransCanada,
would run more than 1,600 miles
from Alberta, Canada, and would
end in the Nederland and Port
Arthur area.
Townsend said he and many
members of the CEC were concerned with the environmental
impact the pipeline would have
on the state of Texas, especially the

these are very multifaceted and
complex issues.â&#x20AC;?
Smith and the three panel members spoke about specific cases of free speech questions including Klan protests, flag burnings and recent anti-gay protests at
military funerals.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is in the particulars that these issues get interesting,â&#x20AC;? Smith said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The
stakes are real around the world and
in the neighborhood.â&#x20AC;?

Jeremi Suri,
author of
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Libertyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
Surest
Guardianâ&#x20AC;? and
distinguished
professor in
global leadership, history,
and public
policy, looks
to Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
history and
various conflicts as a
mechanism of
nation
building.

Book tells of
U.S. success,
world impact
Renowned UT professor Jeremi
Suri released a book Tuesday focusing on the principles of successful
nation-building based on research
that delves into U.S. history.
Suri joined the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and the
Department of History as a professor this fall. His book was titled
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Libertyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Surest Guardian: American Nation-Building from the
Founders to Obama.â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The book is an effort to understand how Americans have sought
to change the world, and one of
my points is that we have sought to
change the world by changing ourselves,â&#x20AC;? Suri said.
He said that his book includes an
analysis of several factors that are
involved in successful nation-building: partners, process, problemsolving, purpose and people.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;After examining history, [I found
that] these are the five elements that
contribute to more success rather
than more failure, though they do
not guarantee [success],â&#x20AC;? Suri said.
Suri said his analysis involved
a consideration of crucial historical examples of nation-building by

The tight ends finally had
something positive to celebrate.
As soon as D.J. Grant crossed
the goal line for a 45-yard touchdown reception on Texasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; sixth
play of the game against UCLA,
all six Longhorn tight ends rushed
onto the Rose Bowl field, cheering
in unison.
They had plenty of cause for
such a dramatic reaction.
For starters, it was the first
touchdown by a Texas tight end
in five games and only the third
catch from the position on the
season.
But that play had an even
deeper meaning.
It marked Grantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s arrival after
three long seasons of watching
and waiting on the sidelines and
two years of multiple surgeries and
grueling rehab for the man who
tore his right ACL, PCL and hamstring before he ever suited up on
game day.
T h e l o u d e s t c h e e r l e a d e r,
though, was senior tight end
Blaine Irby. And for good reason.
Irby calls Grant a close friend,
but their friendship wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t born

TIGHT ENDS continues on PAGE 8

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RED SOX

ORIOLES

ASTROS

CARDINALS
Lawrence Peart | Daily Texan File Photo

Tight ends D.J. Grant, left, and Blaine Irby, right, celebrate after a Grant touchdown catch during a 49-20 win against UCLA on Sept. 17. Irby
and Grant are both coming off of terrible injuries last season, and are having a huge impact on the Texas offense this season.

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FOOTBALL

Six random Big 12 football thoughts to consider

Lawrence Peart
Daily File Photo

THOUGHTS continues on PAGE 8

Buffalo Bills
quarterback Ryan
Fitzpatrick
has been
on fire this
year, while
leading his
team to a
3-0 record.

By Chris Hummer
Daily Texan Staff

It was another turbulent week in
the world of fantasy football, with a
number of key injuries and numerous breakout performances that just
make you ask, â&#x20AC;&#x153;He did what?â&#x20AC;? So,
letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s explore how last weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s games affect your lineup: who is truly hot and
who is not.

HOT
Any Buffalo Bills
offensive player

1. If you havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been watching
football this season and you took
a look at this story, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d probably
think I was crazy, and to be honest, it
feels a little bit weird seeing the Bills
in this spot. But they are on fire. Buffalo is averaging 37.66 points a game,
and everyone is getting touches. Harvard graduate Ryan Fitzpatrick is
scorching with at least 18 points in
his first three games, making him a
viable starting quarterback in any
league. Running back Fred Jackson is
quickly establishing himself as a top10 back with at least 11 points in every game â&#x20AC;&#x201D; he has also broken the
20-point mark in the last two. Plus,
wide receiver Steve Johnson and tight
end Scott Chandler have both firmly
announced their fantasy prowess as
strong starting options. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not too
late to get on the Billsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; bandwagon:
Chandler is still available in 51 percent of ESPN fantasy leagues.

Gary Wiepert
Associated Press

217 receiving yards and two touch- for owners who picked Vick in the
downs last Sunday and is a must-play top-10 of the draft. If you did, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
week to week.
probably time to pick up Fitzpatrick or Eaglesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; backup Mike KafTorrey Smith, Baltimore ka because Vickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s injury pattern is a
troubling one.
3. Who? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what many will
say when they look at the Week 3
scoring leaders and see this rookie at Kenny Britt, Tennessee
the top of the list. Smith, a second- 2. The wide receiver has been a
round pick from Maryland, went fantasy beast this year, but on Sunoff for 152 yards receiving and three day, he tore ligaments in his knee
touchdowns against the St. Louis and will miss significant time. For
Rams. He is still available in 99 per- those desperately scrambling afcent of ESPN leagues, and while he ter his loss, think about pickwonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t consistently post such ridicu- ing up his teammate Nate Washlous numbers, he should still see quite ington, who is available in 90 pera few balls from Joe Flacco the rest of cent of leagues, or Oaklandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Denarius Moore, available in 60 percent
the season.
of leagues.

NOT

Michael Vick,
Philadelphia

1.

This guy cannot seem to stay
healthy.
A week after suffering a conWes Welker, New
cussion against the Falcons, Vick
England Patriots
reportedly broke his non-throw2. Not much to say here. When ing hand Sunday against the Gipaired with Tom Brady, this guy is a ants. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s uncertain if heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be good to
monster. The former Red Raider had go in Week 4, disappointing news

Frank Gore, San
Francisco

3.

Gore continued his slow start to
the season Sunday with only 42 yards
on 17 carries. The running back is
fighting nagging injuries and is starting to show signs of aging. Astute owners might look to pick up his backup,
Kendall Hunter.

Pair of Texas
liberos hail
all the way
from Hawaii
By Chris Hummer
Daily Texan Staff

Hawaii is know for its sandy
beaches, great weather and relaxing environment, but around
Austin, the Aloha state is know
for producing the excellent defensive volleyball players Sydney Yogi
and Sarah Palmer.
Last year, Texas starting libero Yogi went down with an injury late in the season. It was Palmer, her backup, who filled in nicely for her.
A freshman, Palmer received
instrumental advice and support from Yogi during that period, who coached her through the
finer points of playing libero. The
advice was helpful because Palmer played an attacking position in
high school, outside hitter, and
was still working to adjust to play-

VS.
Date: Tonight
Time: 7 p.m.
Place: Norman, Okla.

The number of field
goals Dallas Cowboys
rookie kicker Dan
Bailey made on
Monday in the 1816 win against the
Washington Redskins,
accounting for all 18 of
Dallasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; points.

181
The number of games
played in baseball so
far this season, and
after all of that the
Boston Red Sox and
the Tampa Bay Rays
are still tied for the
wildcard lead. The Red
Sox have already lost
18 times in September
allowing the the Rays
to get back in the race.

11.4

ing the defensive libero slot.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;She was always there to cheer
me on and support me if I had any
questions, and was always there
on the bench for me,â&#x20AC;? Palmer said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;During the final four, she actually wrote me a couple of notes telling me what I should be
doing, and staying in
that libero mentality,
which really helped. I
really appreciate all of
her support she gave me
last season.â&#x20AC;?
The pairâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s journey to Austin started with Yogi,
when she committed to Texas over four years
ago. While the 40 Ac r e s is a
significant distance away from her
home in the pacific, when she visited campus, she knew it was the
right environment for her.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think you can deny the
kind of pride that you see when
you come and visit the campus,â&#x20AC;?
Yogi said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like nowhere else
you can imagine, burnt orange everywhere is kind of hard to miss.
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1. In case youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not keeping up, Texas commit Johnathan Gray, who already owns
the state record for career rushing touchdowns, has now rushed
79 times for 1,079 rushing yards
and 17 touchdowns through
four games this season for Aledo
High School. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like a video
game ...
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A six pack of thoughts that
thankfully have nothing to do
with conference realignment:

Senior running
back Fozzy
Whittaker has
taken his role in
stride as he and
freshman back
Malcolm Brown
have been splitting time in the
back field this
season.

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Daily Texan Columnist

a video game. Tuesday night, I
created a 99-overall running back
on NCAA 12 and then played four
games with him, giving him three
20-carry games and one 19-carry
game. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what cyber-back finished with: 79 carries, 948 yards,
10 touchdowns. Grayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the real
deal, PS3 donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t lie.
2. None of the polls agree with
me, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not so sure Oklahoma State isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the best team in the
conference. A big, come-frombehind win on the road against
Texas A&M (2-1) looked more
impressive than Oklahomaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s win
two Saturdays ago on the road
against Florida State (2-2). If the

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HAWAII continues on PAGE 7

As in the $11.4 million
that were on the
line when Bill Haas
and Hunter Mahan
squared off in a playoff
for the PGA Tour
Championship and the
Fed Cup on Sunday.
Haas won on hole
three of the playoff
with a par.

Join us
today at
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a live chat
previewing
Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
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Cowboys and Sooners faced off
right now on at a neutral site, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d
take the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Pokes by a touchdown.
Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have a good chance to
prove theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the best in the conference: this year, Bedlamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at
their home teepee.
3. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m no stat guy (we have one
of those), but I think the Longhornsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; biggest numerical accomplishment thus far is finding a
way to get 12 different guys the
ball via the passing game. Variety
is good; running backs, fullbacks,
h-backs, tight ends, receivers and
even quarterbacks have all caught
passes so far this year. Since Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m
expecting DeSean Hales, Miles
Onyegbule, Blaine Irby, Darius
Terrell and Barrett Matthews to
all snag a pass this year, the number of players with catches could
rise to 17. Last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s figure? 13.
4. Texas head coach Mack Brown
says that Demarco Cobbs (forearm) and Chet Moss (back) are
being evaluated and just might be

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I think you feel a real sense of community here â&#x20AC;&#x201D; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a just a real special
place to be.â&#x20AC;?
When it came time for Palmer to
make a commitment to a school, she
looked to Yogi, whose parents are family friends, for advice about the Texas
program. Which is when Yogi posed
the question, â&#x20AC;&#x153;What better place in the
U.S. is there?â&#x20AC;?
Palmer agreed and decided to come
to the Lone Star state.
Yogi doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel that she had a
large influence on Palmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision,
though, but she does feel that she
made the right choice.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t try to convince her to
come her or anything, but I answered
he questions honestly, and in the end,
I think she made a really smart decision,â&#x20AC;? Yogi said with a wry smile.
Both players have adjusted well to
Austin, an immensely different environment in comparison to Hawaii,

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able to go this week. The return
of Cobbs, a svelte outside linebacker who has the quicks to get
after the quarterback and cover a
slot receiver, would be huge for
the Longhorns defense.
5. Hard not to love Fozzy Whittaker. The senior running back
has spent all season answering
more questions about true freshman Malcolm Brown than himself, but heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s handled it all with
grace. Fozzy might not be the
main horse in the Longhornsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;
backfield anymore, but heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an
important and versatile one.
6. Along the same token, canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
we all just agree that Brown deserves to be more than the â&#x20AC;&#x153;costarterâ&#x20AC;? at running back? After
three games, he leads the Longhorns in rushing yards and yardsper-attempt. Brownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clearly the
missing piece in the ground game
Texas has been missing since Jamaal Charles left after the 2007
season. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m all for playing Whittaker in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wildâ&#x20AC;? packages and on third downs, but give
Brown the title of first-string
running back â&#x20AC;&#x201D; he more than
deserves it.

and love certain aspects of the capital city.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Austin is so lively,â&#x20AC;? Palmer said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always something going on.
On any given night, I can look up
and see whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going on and I can find
something that would interest me. As
opposed to Hawaii where I would just
sit around and watch TV or chill with
my friends.â&#x20AC;?
There are certain aspects of Hawaii
that are hard to replace though, like
the beach. But both players mentioned
one thing specifically that is hard to
go without.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The food is definitely the thing I
miss the most, my family does kind
of a good job sending stuff over, but
there are just some things you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
ship,â&#x20AC;? Yogi said.
While the food might not compare
to their usual Hawaiian diet, they both
have found a home in Austin and are
a huge part of the No. 8 ranked Longhorns, success. Yogi, Palmer and the
rest of the team will be back in action
tonight against rival Oklahoma who
they went 2-0 against last year.

SEC: no plans for
14th university
By John Zenor
The Associated Press

Commissioner Mike Slive tried
to temporarily quell the â&#x20AC;&#x153;enormous
speculationâ&#x20AC;? about whether â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or
more likely when â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the Southeastern Conference will add a 14th
member to join Texas A&M.
Slive said Tuesday, a day after festivities welcoming member No. 13,
that the SEC presidents and chancellors are not currently considering
any other schools for admission and
that Texas A&M was the only one to
submit an application. He reiterated that he anticipates having just 13
members in 2012-13.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t emphasize this
enough. This has all been about Texas A&M,â&#x20AC;? Slive said in a conference
call with Texas A&M President R.
Loftin Bowen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have not initiated any conversations with any in-

stitution. This was about Texas
A&M understanding that some
of the complexities that 13 teams
brings, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really it.â&#x20AC;?
Slive said the SEC will begin negotiations this fall with
ESPN and CBS to upgrade the
current 15-year contracts with
both networks.
Dave Einsel | Associated Press
He has appointed a point perTexas
A&M
President
R.
Bowen
Loftin,
left,
exchanges
helmets with
son and three senior administrators â&#x20AC;&#x201D; who he declined to iden- Southeastern Conference Commissioner Mike Slive, right, on Monday.
tify â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to work with Texas A&Mâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
ber appealing, saying â&#x20AC;&#x153;weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll just see
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know there will be enormous
transition team that Loftin said
speculation,â&#x20AC;? Slive said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There will
includes â&#x20AC;&#x153;well over a dozen people.â&#x20AC;? how the future plays out.â&#x20AC;?
He said he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know if there be speculation about how weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re goSlive said league athletic directors
would meet in the next few weeks was a specific deadline when the ing to schedule. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be speculato begin considering options such as SEC would need to add a 14th mem- tion about whether weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to go
to 14 and if we go to 14, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that
scheduling. He said he wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sure if ber for next season.
Adding a 13th team was just an- going to be, howâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that going to hapTexas A&M would land in the SEC
West but â&#x20AC;&#x153;obviously it makes sense to other step in the conference expan- pen, whenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that going to happen.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all appropriate questions.
me that Texas A&M be in the West.â&#x20AC;? sions that began last year with ColSlive declined to discuss what orado (Pac-12) and Nebraska (Big We will deal with those on a timetable that works for us.â&#x20AC;?
would make a potential 14th mem- Ten) leaving the Big 12.

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on the field. It was forged on the
training table and in the weight
room.
If anyone understands what it
took for Grant to return to action, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Irby. He was with him
every step of the way.
Irby rehabbed alongside Grant
for two years after suffering a
similar injury during his sophomore year in 2008, when he
tore his ACL, LCL and meniscus â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not to mention the severe
nerve damage that left him with
a 5 percent chance of walking
normally again.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Before both of us hurt our
knees, D.J. and I probably werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
even that close,â&#x20AC;? Irby said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But
I think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the closest in the
tight end room just because
weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gone through that experience together, gone through
such a hardship together, it really brings us closer.â&#x20AC;?

While both players have returned this season from their
knee injuries, they each realize
they wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be where theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at
without the other.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Blaine gave me all the confidence I need with him coming back the way he did,â&#x20AC;? Grant
said.
Throughout the rehab process,
they ran sprints together, competed for the fastest time in the
40-yard dash, lifted weights and
received treatment, day after day,
side by side.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every day we were working,
competing, pushing each other,
and I think I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be here if
it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t for D.J.,â&#x20AC;? Irby said.
But Grant needed more than
just someone to push him physically. After all, the rehab process
is equally taxing mentally.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I first got hurt, I was a
little down,â&#x20AC;? Grant said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Blaine

came to talk to me and said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;You
know itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never over. You still
have two years when you come
back. You can get it together.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;
Having somebody support you
like that really brings your hopes
back up, and it got my confidence back and helped me get
back to where Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m at today.â&#x20AC;?
There were plenty of opportunities for Grant and Irby to
abandon their rehab. Two years,
of course, is quite a long time.
And rehab is never easy.
Yet they persevered through it
all, with the Texas training staff
constantly prodding them to
get better.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was very frustrating, but
I knew it would have a greater
meaning to me after I was done,â&#x20AC;?
Grant said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And now I look back
at it, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m glad for all the pushing
they did to me. All the hard work
they gave me to do. Look at me

now. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s working out for me.â&#x20AC;?
Instead of giving up, Grant
and Irby took advantage of their
extra time in the weight room.
Although they couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be on the
field running routes and catching
passes with the rest of the tight
ends, they were busy bulking up
to improve their blocking.
â&#x20AC;&#x153; D u r i n g h i s t i m e a w a y,
[Grant] got stronger just like
Blaine did,â&#x20AC;? said tight ends coach
Bruce Chambers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you get
stronger, that brings confidence.
Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re very confident in blocking. When a guy gets that confidence and knows heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strong,
he can go in there and make
those blocks.â&#x20AC;?
Yes, they found the silver lining. And things might just finally be going their way.
For now, it looks like the
tight ends will have plenty to
cheer about.

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Texasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; third baseman Nadia Taylor awaits the pitch during Texasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; fall opener against Temple College in which they won 20-0. Taylor and the Longhorns are looking to bounce back from a tough first-round loss in last
yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s regional round of the NCAA tournament, and are using the fall season as a tune up for the real games in the spring.

But it was the Texas offense that stole
the spotlight, as the team registered
an astounding 25 hits. Senior third
baseman Nadia Taylor headlined the
hitting frenzy with a three-run homer
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lined the hitting frenzy with a three- ed another homer to start off the they set a single-game record for
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omore Mandy Ogle, the expected
Last season, the Longhorns saw Texas Tech where they won 15-2.
starter behind the plate, also record- great success at the plate. In April,
Other notable performances
on offense include juniors Taylor
Hoagland and Torie Schmidt, along
with sophomore Taylor Thom.
Thom had a double in her three hit
performance while Schmidt connected for three singles.
Hoagland went 3-for-4 last Friday
with one triple. Hoagland is coming
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They didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let the summer break
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opener last Friday.
All four Texas hurlers saw action against the Leopards and combined for a seven-inning no-hitter. Junior Kim Bruins, who started off the game in the circle for Texas, retired all three batters in the
first while earning one strikeout.
The veteran pitching staff welcomed

freshman Gabby Smith into the circle this weekend. Smith, a right
hander from Houston, pitched two
complete innings.
Sophomore Rachel Fox and junior Blaire Luna, who handled most
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So political kerfuffle aside, you
have to wonder exactly what a $16
muffin would taste like.
Last week’s news that the U.S.
government paid $16 apiece for
breakfast muffins at a Justice Department conference set off critics
of government spending.
Hilton Worldwide, the hotel
company that hosted the 2009
confab in Washington, disputes
the accuracy of the claim, which
appeared in a report by Cynthia
A. Schnedar, the Justice Department’s inspector general. The hotel called it an accounting thing,
explaining that the price included
various drinks and gratuity charges, in addition to the muffins. Schnedar stands by the report.
All this fails to take into account the most important issue.
If you did spend $16 on a muffin, what would it look like? How
would it taste?
The typical muffin baked in an
institutional setting, such as a hotel, costs about 50 cents or less,
not including labor. If you go crazy extravagant and reach for the
top-shelf organic flour, maybe
some hand-harvested wild blueberries from Maine and fancy
sugar, you’re still going to max out
around $1 per muffin on raw ingredients.
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Before serving these $16 muffins, sprinkle the macadamia nuts around the outer edge, then sprinkle the gold leaf over the center surface. Top each with a chocolate-covered strawberry.

for ways to bump up the price of
your basic muffin. The end result
was anything but basic. We’re also
pretty certain you’ll never see one
of these babies served at a government conference.

Getting the price-per-muffin that high was hard. We took
the obvious steps first — organic flour, sugar and milk, cultured butter, sea salt and freerange eggs. But we still weren’t

even close. A rare honey imported from Zambia helped, as did a
healthy amount of pricey macadamia nuts and some Tahitian vanilla beans.
But in the end, the only way to

get to $16 was to reach for some
old-fashioned booze and gold.
That’s right, we glazed our muffins with a chocolate sauce made
from organic dark chocolate cut
with reduced Scotch Whisky (the

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flakes.
The result? A rather stunning
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and laying waste to them. On
his song, “Whole City Behind
Us,” he spits, “Live from a city of
jealous-ass n**gers and bougieass bitches, where you ain’t getting love unless swimmin’ mad
riches.”
Under The Influence carries an
essence more characteristic of
Domo Genesis, whereas his first
record, Rolling Papers, carried
huge Tyler, The Creator influences, both in terms of flow and
instrumentals. Under The Influence doesn’t carry the wispy,
warped Neptunes-inspired beats
characteristic of Tyler. If anything, the mixtape is more reminiscent of classic rap than anything from Odd Future, outside
of Mike G’s “Ali.” According to
The Los Angeles Times, he’s a
fan of Slick Rick and uses Scar-

face and Mobb Deep beats on
Under The Influence.
Aside from that, the mixtape
is still very Odd Future; occasional verses pop up throughout
the record about doing horrible things to women or just people in general. These things are
all described in a fair amount of
detail, layered on with the finest
expletives the west coast’s most
prominent rapper can conjure.
Despite lacking artist features
(Tyler is the only Odd Future
member that raps on the record
besides Domo) and the overall
lack of originality, Under The Influence is a solid piece of work.
Domo Genesis has proven his
technical ability and hopefully
his next work will illustrate the
fulfillment of his potential as a
visionary.

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the shore of his home in Spain. He
immediately went inside, put the
octopus in acid and then placed it
on a copper plate and drew an etching around the imprint it made.
Even to Christine Argillet, someone very close to Dali, the man was
perplexing and enigmatic. Often
painted by the media to be eccentric and flamboyant, she described

a man who was jolly, kind-hearted and possessed a strong desire to
simply please others in the most benevolent manner.
In this regard, Argillet is the same
as Dali. As she noted that the collection was among the most important and impressive of Dali’s work,
she said, “To have art known, you
must share it.”

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acoustic riff. This song shows frontman Jeff Tweedy at his best, and, were
it the last song Wilco ever produced,
fans could die happy.
The album isn’t consistently amazing — songs such as “Rising Red
Lung” and “Standing O” don’t dazzle
— but it’s good throughout and con-

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brilliance. After their last dud of an album, Wilco has gotten back to doing
what has made them one of America’s
most interesting rock bands in the last
decade. They have released an album
full of great rock songs made better by
surprising, ingenuitive musicianship.

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Catherine Devine, 22, reads instant messages on her laptop screen at her home in Kings Park, N.Y., on Monday. Devine had her first brush
with an online bully in seventh grade before she’d even ventured onto the Internet.

Internet amplifies effects of bullying at every age
By Connie Cass
The Associated Press

Catherine Devine had her first
brush with an online bully in seventh grade, before she’d even ventured onto the Internet. Someone
set up the screen name “devinegirl” and, posing as Catherine, sent
her classmates instant messages
full of trashy talk and lies.
“They were making things up
about me, and I was the most innocent 12-year-old ever,” Devine
remembers. “I hadn’t even kissed
anybody yet.”
As she grew up, Devine, now 22,
learned to thrive in the electronic
village. But like other young people, she occasionally stumbled into
one of its dark alleys.
A new Associated Press-MTV
poll of youth in their teens and
early 20s finds that most of them
— 56 percent — have been the
target of some type of online
taunting, harassment or bullying, a slight increase over just two
years ago. A third say they’ve been
involved in “sexting,” the sharing of naked photos or videos of
sexual activity. Among those in
a relationship, four out of 10 say
their partners have used computers or cellphones to abuse or control them.
Three-fourths of the young people said they consider these dark-

er aspects of the online world,
sometimes broadly called “digital
abuse,” a serious problem.
They’re not the only ones.
Pre s i d e nt B ar a ck O b am a
brought students, parents and experts together at the White House
in March to try to confront “cyberbullying.” The Education Department sponsors an annual conference to help schools deal with it.
Teen suicides linked to vicious online bullying have caused increasing worry in communities across
the country.
Conduct that rises to the point
of bullying is hard to define, but
the AP-MTV poll of youth ages
14 to 24 showed plenty of rotten
behavior online and a perception
that it’s increasing. The share of
young people who frequently see
people being mean to each other
on social networking sites jumped
to 55 percent, from 45 percent
in 2009.
That may be partly because
young people are spending more
time than ever communicating
electronically: seven in 10 had
logged into a social networking site in the previous week, and
eight in 10 had texted a friend.
Devine, who lives on New
York’s Long Island, experienced
her share of online drama in
high school and college: A friend
passed around highly personal en-

tries from Devine’s private electronic journal when she was 15.
She left her Facebook account
open on a University of Scranton
library computer, and a prankster
posted that she was pregnant (she
wasn’t). Most upsetting, when she
was 18, Devine succumbed to a
boyfriend’s pressure to send a revealing photo of herself, and when
they broke up, he briefly raised the
threat of embarrassing her with it.
“I didn’t realize the power he
could have over me from that,”
Devine said. “I thought he’d just
see it once and then delete it, like I
had deleted it.”
The Internet didn’t create the
turmoil of the teen years and young
adulthood — romantic breakups,
bitter fights among best friends,
jealous rivalries, teasing and bullying. But it does amplify it.
“It’s worse online because everybody sees it,” said Tiffany Lyons,
24, of Layton, Utah. “And once
anything gets online you can’t get
rid of it.”
Plus, 75 percent of youth think
people do or say things online
that they wouldn’t do or say face
to face.
The most common complaints
were people spreading false rumors on Internet pages or by
text message, or being downright
mean online; more than onefifth of young people said each

of those things had happened to
them. Twenty percent saw someone take their electronic messages
and share them without permission, and 16 percent said someone
posted embarrassing pictures or
video of them without their permission.
Some of these are one-time incidents; others cross into repeated
harassment or bullying.
Sameer Hinduja, a cyberbullying researcher, said numerous recent studies taken together suggest a cyberbullying victimization
rate of 20 to 25 percent for middle
and high school students. Many
of these same victims also suffer
from in-person abuse. Likewise,
many online aggressors are also
real-world bullies.
“We are seeing offenders who
are just jerks to people online and
offline,” said Hinduja, an associate professor of criminal justice
at Florida Atlantic University and
co-director of the Cyberbullying
Research Center.
And computers and cellphones
increase the reach of old-fashioned bullying.
“When I was bullied in middle
school, I could go home and slam
my door and forget about it for a
while,” said Hinduja. “These kids
can be accessed around the clock
through technology. There’s really
no escape.”

Kathleen Shwartz looks at one of many original Salvador Dali works on display at West Sixth Street’s Russell Collection Fine Art Gallery. The gallery is now host to more than 200
of Dali’s sketches, tapestries and other works including copper etchings.

Austin is home to many artists,
including extremely talented ones,
so it only makes sense that Austin
should house the largest collection
of copper etchings created by one
of contemporary art’s greatest artists, Salvador Dali.
The collection, which is currently being exhibited at West Sixth
Street’s Russell Collection Fine Art
Gallery, features more than 200
of Dali’s works, including copper
etchings.
The current works are from the
collection of Dali’s former publisher and longtime friend, French-

man Pierre Argillet. The collection
is now owned and curated by his
daughter Christine Argillet.
“This collection is the reflection
of their friendship,” Christine Argillet said. The works were commissioned by Pierre Argillet and
are representative of many of his
tastes and preferences. The medium the art is created on exemplifies that.
“My father did not think that the
print-based lithographs Dali wanted to do were original,” Christine
Argillet said.
Dali was initially opposed to
etching on copper plates because of
the brightness they produce, which
he perceived to hurt the eyes.

From the abrasive experimentalism of “Art of Almost,” to the
somber acoustic release of “Sunday Morning,” Wilco’s new album The Whole Love is a statement about what Wilco is and always has been: a band that hates to
be defined. Coming from another
band, the record might be called
unfocused, but for Wilco, a group
critics have alternately dubbed
country rock, experimental and
“dad rock,” it marks a brilliant return to form.
After making a name for itself
with the innovative, dissonancecloaked indie-pop of “I Am Trying
to Break Your Heart” and A Ghost
is Born, Wilco perplexed fans and
critics with the refreshingly simple
Sky Blue Sky and then flat out disappointed them with their most
recent self-titled album.
The Whole Love isn’t another “I
Am Trying to Break Your Heart,”
but — unlike in their last two albums — the group’s avant-garde
tendencies are subtly present here.
Distortion swells and weird riffs
add depth to songs that evoke the
best of Wilco’s folk days and of
their first indie-rock record Summerteeth. Every song, even the
first track, “Art of Almost,” which

seems more an experimental statement than a coherent song, has
something to like about it.
After guitarist Nels Cline gets
some high-voltage riffing out of
his system, the album finds its
groove with the catchy second
track, “I Might,” and keeps rolling through “Sunloathe,” which
channels some of the spookier moments of Abbey Road and
“Dawned on Me,” an upbeat indierock tune that evokes prior hits
such as “Heavy Metal Drummer.”
After the solemn folk song “Black
Moon,” the record reaches a high
point at “Born Alone.” With its
catchy melody and gibberish lyrics, the song’s chorus is as infectious and meltingly sweet as any
of the best indie-pop moments on
Summerteeth.
At times, the second half of the
album sounds like a tribute to
Wilco’s folk era, but the band’s intervening years are present even
during the straightforward folk
rock of “Open Mind” and “Capitol City.” In the musical outro
of 12-minute folk opus “Sunday
Morning,” a soft, jazzy guitar lick
from Cline summons up a swell
of muffled distortion, and an insistent, tinkling piano line phases in, driving the song into the bittersweet resolution of its unifying

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Nonetheless, Dali created scores
of copper-plated etchings for Pierre
Argillet until their professional relationship ended in 1979, when Dali’s will to create print-based lithographs triumphed over his desire
to work with Argillet. The two remained good friends.
The collection itself features all
sorts of works ranging from simple
yet caustic sketch-ups to elaborate
etches of chaotic vibrance.
The works’ themes run the gamut of possibilities, with Dali taking
inspiration from everything from
hippies and the middle-aged to
Spanish bullfights to Mao Zedong’s
poetry.
One particular piece from the

Mao series is an etching of Mao
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that has his head extending out of
the view of picture. Christine Argillet explained Dali’s rationale in the
WHERE: Russell Collection
1137 W. Sixth Street
creation of the etching. Upon inquiry of the detail, Dali merely replied, “Mao is so big, he doesn’t fit
WHEN: Sept. 23 to Oct. 31
on one page.”
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for placing his own head on bulls’
bodies. “[He] hated bullfights,” ArTICKETS: Free
gillet said. “He always saw himself
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the
explanation behind his piece
She also shed light on an etchentitled
“Medusa.” According to
ing symbolizing peace. The three
mountains on copper plating all sit Argillet, Dali found an octopus on
next to one another but never touch,
just as peace is never achieved.
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Of the next generation of heavily associated hip-hop stoner acts,
Odd Future’s Domo Genesis definitely sits at the top the field. Domo’s peers in the field, Curren$y
and Wiz Khalifa, have either created an awkward sound inaccessible to many hip-hop aficionados, let alone fans, or have sold
out on the most disgusting level (e.g., Wiz Khalifa’s Rolling Papers, a disgusting mess of unclever verses with pop hooks placed
on top of stale beats, in an obvious attempt to gain radio play).
On his new mixtape, Under
The Influence, Domo has made
a number of stylistic changes
that distance his sound from his
Odd Future counterparts, but he
has made no movement towards
compromising his beliefs for the
sake of success. This is particularly noteworthy, given that of the
entire Odd Future group, Domo
Genesis made the most drastic
changes in terms of appearance
after the collective’s rise to prominence. Generally, when artists
make a move toward achieving
higher status and become image
conscious, their art suffers.
Ditching the sleepy stoner look
that made him falsely appear to
be one of the laziest and least
valuable of the bunch, Domo has
transitioned into a chic, Kanye
West-like character who is more
emblematic of Northeast eccentricities than of a stoner skater from Ladera, Calif. Lyrically,
he makes this clear, not embracing his elevated status but instead
recognizing its inherent faults

Ian Shults has always been interested in art. As a child, his
mother helped him make his own
toys out of clay. As a teenager, he
started creating graffiti characters under bridges after he was
kicked out of his high school art
class. From then on, he started to
become aware of art everywhere
he went.
Then, fate intervened. Stults
stumbled upon a group of artists
building a giant genie sculpture.
He stopped in to see what was
going on, showed the men some
pictures of his graffiti art and
eventually was given a job at Skagen Art, which later became Blue
Genie Art Industries, a company
known for its giant sculptures and
murals found around Austin.
After eight years as lead illustrator and head sculptor at Blue
Genie, Shults is now creating his
own artwork and showing in galleries nationally. The series he is
currently working on, “The Social
Contract,” is done almost entirely in black and white with angular
brush strokes, giving the pieces
an eerily mysterious effect. Shults’
creative process starts with the
search for new inspiration.
“Normally, I spend hours and
hours online and in magazines
looking through photos basically
trying to find stuff that I dig and
then repurposing them in Photoshop and drawing things out,”
Shults said.
The characteristic style of
Shults’ work can be attributed to
the inspiration he finds from old
magazines he purchases on eBay.
The figures in his pieces look as
if they were taken directly from
the pages of an aged issue of Life

Ian Schultz | The Associated Press

A collection of artist Ian Schultz’s paintings can be seen at the Wally Workman Gallery located on West
Sixth Street.

magazine but are given the distinct flair that Shults is known
for.
“There’s definitely a vintage
swagger going on there,” Shults
said.
Fabian Puente, an assistant
to Shults who describes his job
as making sure Shults does not
put his paintbrush down, praises
Shults’ artwork.
“His artwork, to me, is attractive and exciting,” Puente said.
“The images he uses mixed with
his unique style not only move
you emotionally but also keep
you engaged long enough that
you create a story of your own for
the painting.”
An assortment of Shults’ paintings can be found at the Wally Workman Gallery located on

West Sixth Street. Each painting
takes anywhere between a day to
three weeks for Shults to complete.
“Several times, it happens that
I spend a week on something and
end up painting over it,” Shults
said.
Shults has been successful as an
artist. He has consistently sold his
artwork and is getting ready for an
upcoming show in San Francisco.
But he notes that it is hard for artists to prosper in Austin. Though
his ultimate goal is to one day become a full-time artist, Shults has
to work a second job bartending
at Billy’s on Burnet to get by.
“There are a ton of artists in
Austin, a ton of great artists,”
Shults said. “But this town is one
that hasn’t been renowned for

how much people buy.”
But Shults is not in a hurry to
leave Austin for a more art-centric town anytime soon. He grew
up in Austin and has been here his
entire life. After touring the country with a band he was once a part
of, Shults realized he was not interested in living anywhere else.
“I looked around for other
places I could live in, but I’ve only
liked other places because they
reminded me of Austin,” Shults
said.
It is Shults’ passion about art
that shines through as he speaks,
and Puente believes passion is the
key to success in the world of art.
“The way I see it is if you’re
passionate about something and
you’re persistent, you can achieve
just about anything,” Puente said.